A firm or recruitment company looking to employ a Project Manager wants to know one thing as fast as fast as possible:
What projects you've managed and how big they were!
Your aim then is to give this information as clearly as possible.
So how do you do this?
How do you highlight your career success?
First of all begin with listing all the projects you've managed.
For example:
Project Manager for "Company ABC Systems Consolidation and Upgrade Project"
Project Manager for "Deep Sea Drilling Project"
Project Manager for "Mars Rover Exploration Project"
Next, think about the size of this project.
For example:
Project Manager for "$1.4M Company ABC Systems Consolidation and Upgrade Project"
Project Manager for "$100M Deep Sea Drilling Project"
Project Manager for "$5M Mars Rover Exploration Project"
Now make it POP right off the page when someone reads it.
For example:
Project Manager for the Systems Consolidation and Upgrade Project a $1.4M Company ABC initiative
Successfully delivered a $100M Deep Sea Drilling Project on time and within budget
Delivered the highly visible Mars Rover Exploration Project within $5M two months ahead of schedule
Now you have some value statements that are interesting to read. To get maximum effect for your value statements, you need to place them on the first page of your resume.
Create a section titled "career achievements" and list these statements one per line in this section.
You are striving to hook the reader in, so don't be afraid to pump it up the font, and pull out the impressive statistics.
The bigger the statements the better, when you pull the reader in you're almost forcing them to read the next line.
Ultimately your resume should pull the reader in from the first line and not let go until the last!